The Bible Against Slavery uses the differences between the context of ancient Israel and the context of then modern-day America to denounce the practice of slavery. Through passages from the Bible and much comparison to the Canaanites, Weld argues...

Samuel Mahon, a college student during the spring of 1789, records verbatim a series of 68 lectures on economics, lectures 133 through 200 of the capstone senior course titled Moral Philosophy, as delivered by Charles Nisbet, President of Dickinson...

The pamphlet focuses on how the freedom of slaves would be detrimental to society. The author maintains his anti-abolitionist opinion citing examples of the West India Islands and its consequences of emancipation. Examples of the commerce, wealth,...

Alexander McCaine argues his view that slavery is a righteous act, so says the Bible. This being provoked after Rev. T. Hicklin of Indiana called slavers thieves, robbers, and pirates; deserving of a pirates death at the General Conference of the...

Samuel Blanchard How, in support of southern congregation applications to join, gives an address before the 1855 General Synod of the German Reformed Church defending slavery. This second edition contains that address, further arguments, and...

The book is a detailed account of the origins of slavery in ancient history through the introduction of Christian slavery to North Africa, the African slave trade from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, the Middle Passage, and slavery in the...

James Buchanan outlines the development of the great crisis that culminated in the outbreak of the Civil War at the end of his presidency. He places the polarizing issue of slavery at the center of turmoil, commenting on decades of hardening views...